Assessment of Nutritional Knowledge of Anganwadi Workers
| dc.contributor.advisor | Jain, Shashi | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sharma, Bhawana | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-11T06:37:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-07-11T06:37:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description | Assessment of Nutritional Knowledge of Anganwadi Workers | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The present research was conducted with the objective to assess nutritional knowledge of Anganwadi workers. The study was conducted in two purposively selected districts of Rajasthan i.e. Ajmer and Udaipur. Four AWTCs were included in the study. The study sample consisted of 60 AWWs. After reviewing of course content of refresher training and consultation with subject matter specialist, different aspects of nutrition were selected. Nutrition aspects included basic nutrition, nutrition for vulnerable groups and growth monitoring. Questionnaire technique was used for data collection and data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean percent scores and correlation. Nearly half of the respondents (46.67%) were belonging to the age group of 31-40 years. More than half of the AWWs (58.33%) had education qualification below 12th class. Nearly half of the AWWs (46.67%) had more than 10 years of experience in the service. All the AWWs (100%) have taken job training of 26 working days once in their service period. Majority of AWWs (68.33%) had completed up to 2 refresher trainings only. An AWW receive refresher training with an average interval of 5.2 years. All the AWWs (100%) maintain growth chart in Anganwadi centre. Majority of AWWs (i.e.65 %) provides health and nutrition education once in a week. All AWWs reported work load as major constraint in dissemination of nutrition messages. The overall Nutritional knowledge of the respondents was found to be average (46.84%). The aspect wise nutritional knowledge of respondents reflects the average knowledge all three components i.e. basic nutrition with mean per cent score of 46.23, Nutrition for vulnerable groups with mean percent score of 48.40, growth monitoring with mean per cent score of 43. In –depth analysis of nutrition knowledge reveals that respondents had inadequate knowledge in different aspect such as functions of vitamin-D, rich sources of iron, iron rich recipes, diet during diarrhoea, cause of high blood pressure in pregnancy and nutrient need during lactation. AWWs possess especially poor knowledge regarding micronutrient deficiency (i.e. riboflavin, niacin and cyanocobalamin). AWWs had adequate knowledge about balanced diet; rich sources of vitamin-A, C and calcium; deficiency syndrome of vitamin-A; initiation of breastfeeding; iodine deficiency disorder and diet in protein energy malnutrition. A significant relationship found between educational level of AWWs and their knowledge of nutrition. Nutritional knowledge score went on increasing with increasing educational level of AWWs. Knowledge score went on decreasing as the experience of AWWs in years was increasing. But no significant relationship found between the work experience of the AWWs and their knowledge about basic nutrition. Relationship between nutritional knowledge of AWW and their age was found to be significant. Knowledge score went on decreasing with increasing age of AWWs. But no significant relationship found between age of AWW and knowledge of basic nutrition possessed by them. No significant relationship was found between nutritional knowledge of AWWs and number refresher trainings completed but relationship between knowledge of AWWs about growth monitoring and number refresher trainings completed was found significant and they were negative correlated. The study concluded that knowledge of AWWs on nutrition is inadequate. Hence attention may be given to strengthen this aspect in ICDS training programme. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Sharma and Jain, 2014 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810024943 | |
| dc.keywords | Assessment of Nutritional Knowledge of Anganwadi Workers | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.pages | 116 | en_US |
| dc.publisher | MPUAT, Udaipur | en_US |
| dc.research.problem | Assessment of Nutritional Knowledge of Anganwadi Workers | en_US |
| dc.sub | Food and Nutrition | en_US |
| dc.subject | null | en_US |
| dc.theme | Assessment of Nutritional Knowledge of Anganwadi Workers | en_US |
| dc.these.type | M.Sc | en_US |
| dc.title | Assessment of Nutritional Knowledge of Anganwadi Workers | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |